 What's really remarkable about the document that we're going to look at called the Mandate for Palestine is that The it never mentions the word God and yet if you are a believer in God You will see God's fingerprints all over this document. I promise you that you will see his fingerprints in it It's completely consistent with all of all of his promises. Now. I got some good news for you I Where we're going to go first of all This lady here is a is a land rights activist extraordinaire and tell you just a little bit about her sits on she's a member of the Toronto Zionist Council She has Attended my my very first live training. This is going back. I don't know almost two years ago now and she wrote me now This lady worked with Howard grief Howard grief wrote the definitive work about Israel's land rights It's an 800 page book. Don't ask me the title right now. He's now deceased. He was a Canadian lawyer He went into Britain went to Britain and looked at the source documents Now he eventually passed on but before he died Renana and her husband Joe created a beautiful petition that was actually made it into the Canadian Parliament and presented to the Canadian Parliament so this lady knows Israel's land rights and this is what she wrote to me the next day All my life I never had a copy of my country's land title deed until you put one in my hands your support Understanding vision and belief in us gave me the courage to stand up as a proud Jew And I thought to myself wow Imagine if I could do duplicate that experience 10,000 more times and we had 9999 more Jews out there who actually understood their country's land title deed Understood the promises of the world and knew nor more importantly what to do with it and how to use it. So that's what I do Okay Next one, please you know Great wonderfully that's her speaking at one of my conferences what we're going to do today is we're going to talk about so that the first part is You're going to be able to answer the question I hope our Jews owners or occupiers and you're going to do it from a secular perspective because the world's secular Right, that's the world. We're living in those are the people who are tormenting us for the most part So you're going to understand how to do this. So you're going to be able to answer that question our Jews owners or occupiers Then you're going to need to know well, how do we use this information to take to take charge of the narrative? I'm going to talk to you about attack the tactical deployment of a moral narrative and when I say tactical Moral narrative I'm talking about how do you and I use it when we're interacting with other people and then I'm going to show You a strategic use of it in other words What could Israel do with this and the power of that? Okay, so that's where we're going today And we'll get some questions and objections and I will stay here as long as it takes to get everyone Every question and objection answered because overcoming objections is important. It's very important because they're gonna say yeah But what about this and we need to know how to respond. So here we go This is how I make decisions when people come to me and say well, what about this and what about this and we should do this And that okay first we talk about truth not solutions The problem is is that too many people want to jump to solutions and you can't build a house on a foundation of lies It's not possible if you if you're lying about something it and if you're lying about stolen land or you're lying about history How do you build truth on that if you're gonna try and pretend that oh gee, you know, yeah I know they they murdered our athletes and slit our baby's throats, but if we give them this now we'll have peace Then you're deluding yourself until you address those issues in a substantive way And there are people in your community in particular and that think that if we just Find the solution. Well, no, I want to talk about the truth. Let's talk about the truth because once you have the truth Then you can find you can find the real solution like a divorce Okay, if one if one guy's cheating on you and you don't know that how are you finding a solution to that? You're just not going to do that So my core principle and you'll see this come in as we go through this stuff is truth before Solutions stop talking about truth or stop talking about solutions and start focusing on truth Are Jews owners or not occupiers or not? Did the world make promises to the Jewish people or not? Did the world keep the promises to the Jewish people or not? Can Jews trust a new solution based on the history or not? That's those are the only things that matter. Okay, so that's where I go We're going to argue morality not legalities now There are people in the world who understand this document the League of nation. They understand the mandate They understand the history of it and it's and it's awesome What I understand is how to use it as a counter propaganda method. How do you use this? Not to get into a legal debate But into a more a moral debate. It's not the legal war. We're going to win. It's It's going to be the moral argument because if you think about what has happened to Israel an entire narrative has been completely fabricated out of thin air and Where is their mandate for Palestine well, they have mandates for Syria and we'll talk about that in Lebanon But your enemies have fabricated a whole narrative. They had no legal rights At all and yet here we are so they managed to use very very good propaganda to Attack Israel's legitimacy very effective. So number three the document is enough By that we don't have to argue ancient history. We don't have to argue Archaeology we don't have to argue Sociology we don't have to argue any of that stuff the four corners of the document are enough and I'll tell you why It's as simple as this because you're gonna have questions. Everybody has questions. What's simple is this? The document exists The world made promises to the Jewish people and they're in black and white and this is the document the document alone proves That Jews didn't just wake up one morning and steal a bunch of land that didn't belong with them They were encouraged to rebuild their national home. We're gonna get to that Preach to the choir everywhere like I'll have people say oh mark, you know, we got to stop preaching the choir I said well, that's only true if the choir is all singing the same notes from the same the right book At the same time and as we're gonna see in a few minutes That's not happening. So my mission is not to go and convert any haters My mission is to arm ordinary people who are friendly to Israel look care about Israel with the facts about Israel's land title Do you know how to use it? Okay, so I preach to the choir. My mission is to train the choir Okay, that's my mission. There will be other people who want to go out and go head on and meet the haters I don't do that because we're gonna have a target market We're not going to convert the haters All we can do is use the haters so that if we're online we can say to a hater for example They'll say occupation and I'll say have you read Israel's land title deed the mandate for Palestine and here's the link Okay, why am I doing that? Am I doing it for the hater? No, I'm doing it because I want to leave breadcrumbs for the normal people That's what I'm doing I'm leaving a place where they can get information about what I'm saying and then they can make a decision as to Is mark full of dog do or not and so that's what I'm doing. I'm not trying to convert any haters Be a sorter not a convincer. It's kind of the same thing with that with the target market I don't try to convince anybody. There's an old sale saying that goes amateurs convince and professional sort So in other words the amateur sales person go, I'm selling a house. You want to buy a house? Don't you? Here's a great house I want you to buy this house. It's a good house. You want to buy this house? The sorter comes along and says, excuse me. I have a program for first-time homebuyers Are you interested? No, thank you. Excuse me. I have a I have a program for first-time homebuyers Would you like to come into a seminar? No, and we sort through them So if I'm using that on the Israel side if I'm in a group, let's say I'm five people in a University and I'll say to you know, maybe I'll say to the leader listen I have a document that proves everything you've been told about Jews stealing land is wrong Would you be interested in seeing it? If I could show you that document would you be interested in seeing it? Hell no Thank you. Excuse me. I have a document that proves Jews didn't steal the land. Would you be interested in seeing it? No, excuse me I have a document that proves. Okay. I got the idea. Yeah, I'd be like to see it. Thank you. Come with me That's how that's what I'm talking about sorting not convincing. All right Talk about leaving breadcrumbs for normal people and using the language of truth. I don't want to hear today West Bank I don't want to hear about settlements. I don't want to hear about settlers I only want to hear about Judea and Samaria or if you prefer reclamation movement liberated area communities citizens No settlers no no disputed occupied terror days. Why I hate to tell you I had a meeting with a leader from Deliberated areas and and this person's very what quite well known I said you got to stop calling yourself settlers because in a modern context It raises the issue of clones. It implies that you were not there before It implies that you're getting there for the first time. It's it implies It doesn't it doesn't tell you that you're you're rebuilding something hence reclamation movement So you're using the language of your enemies when you're using these and you're also using language That does not convey truth as we're going to see with the document next, please Okay, why do I like the mandate so much First of all, it's an act of international law issued by the world Okay, it's Belfort declaration was not an act of international law. It was it was just the spark We'll talk about a little bit about the history of that It was a little spark that a big spark that led to something called the San Remo conference And eventually led to the mandate for Palestine So this is where I need to know something asking another question. How many of you have heard of the Belfort Declaration? Everyone how many how many of you have heard of the San Remo conference? Most some not okay, and how many of you have heard of the mandate for Palestine? Okay, a lot of you have how many of you have actually read the words of the mandate for Palestine. How many of you read it? There you go. So four. Okay. All right. Well, that's consistent. I've trained now you would be 475 people and Those averages are consistent only 2% of the people that I've ever trained have ever read the words of Israel's land title deed before we before we met and we're going to change that The mandate is very easy to read It's very easy to learn because written in plain English. You can't mistake what it says It's very easy to teach and share. So what by the time we're done today You're going to know where to find where to find the dot where they find the mandate what kind of the basic Clauses we're not going to read every one of them and you know what I can train anybody to say when they say occupation I can teach you well. No Israel has a land title deed from the world. Would you like to read it? Okay, now it's a little more complicated than that because I'm going to teach you some role-playing But that's the essence of it. It's all in this booklet. It's easy It allows us to you know and I talked about it being secular but complements Torah and Bible So let me just say that again You're not going to find God in this document At least by name, but you will find his fingerprints if you're a believer You'll find his fingerprints in the mandate. They're all low for it and it's an amazing document It allows us to take charge of the debate It really does because now we have something to say like if I asked most people And I'm not going to put you on the spot. What do you say when they say occupation? I don't know. We want peace Okay We really want peace. Okay, another guy might say well Torah gave it to us, you know, if you're very religious, okay This allows us to put people on the defensive using a secular Argument and puts us on the high road and it directly can't emphasize this enough Directly refutes the stolen land propaganda. I went up I had three go rounds with a professor of international law named Nathaniel Berman on is repugnant Who's heard of his repundant his repundant dot? Okay, I thought more with that but okay. I Ted bound great guy. He's spoken in Toronto on occasion and He published this Nathaniel Berman's arguments about, you know, kind of denigrating Israel's land rights Really including the mandate and I said well, we're not gonna let that go. I'm challenged. Are we so I wrote my first piece and Ted Send out to all of his mailing us. He said well, I was afraid to get into this But my friend mark from Toronto or from London, Ontario, Canada got into it. So let's read it I had three go rounds with this professor of international law I have no legal training other than what I had as a real estate agent real estate broker But you know what I got a logical mind and I got a history of mounting winning counter propaganda. So My argument really boiled down to this. I said you can make you can use all the fancy Latin phrases you want You can talk about the ripening rights of self-determination all you want, but what you're not saying to me is The document doesn't exist. You didn't take say to me mark the mandate for Palestine never existed. You never said to me G mark the the the You didn't say to me That the world did not make promises to the Jewish people you didn't say that to me You didn't tell me that G the world kept those promises You didn't tell me that Jews didn't die because the world didn't keep those promises. You didn't say any of those things to me So you can use all these Latin phrases all you want But the bottom line is is that the only thing that you've accomplished through our interaction is proving that Jews can't trust the So I thank you very much for that and I said to him and if Jews can't trust the promises from the original two-state solution Which you're going to find in here. We're going to talk about that one Why should they trust the solutions in a new two-state solution the promises in a new one? Thank you very much appreciate it and that is a great foundation for you to learn, you know Jews should be able to trust the world's promises. That's a moral argument. Shouldn't we? Shouldn't we all be able to trust the world's promises? I mean if the United Nations decided tomorrow that we're going to divvy up some land and we're going to make it happen And it's got a and this is the document Shouldn't the Arabs be able to trust those promises? Shouldn't the Jews be able well, sorry, but the world made promises Back in 1922 to the Jewish people Shouldn't those promises be helped so that's what we're going to go next Okay, so here's our enemies narrative Jews stole our land our illegally occupying it So we have the right to kill them in self-defense to end a brutal occupation and when they kill us they're committing war crimes That's it. That's the essence of this the end of your enemy's narrative true That there isn't that the occupation Occupation occupation occupation and when you when you go when you get down to all the things about the wall and the Conversations always about occupation. Okay, so let's go to the next one Menachem Begin at all times and whatever cost safeguard the dignity and the honor of the Jewish people I take that really literally and that is my mission to do that And I think given what's happened to Jewish people what the world's done to Jewish people. We all have an obligation To do that Okay, here's our sides narrative. So this is what most Israel advocacy involves revolves around Okay, we need the land for defense Israel's gay friendly Israel save lives and hate Israel contributes to medicine and technology Why not criticize Iran and Syria? They're worse than worse than Israel Israel's the only democracy in the Middle East Israel's only defending itself from terror We don't have a peace partner now I did a I've spoken at an event at Ryerson University and Salomon Benzema from Canadians for Israel's legal rights was with me and he said to he asked the Organizer, what do you guys taught to say if somebody says occupation to you? Well, we have to say well, we don't have a peace partner. And that's it. You don't have a peace partner, right? What's missing from that list their core of their argument is occupation and Yet almost none of your counter propaganda narrative counters that occupation They're accusing you of stealing land and ethnically cleansing people and yet Imagine going into court with this argument now. It's neighbor The you know the Arab neighbor to Yossi you stole my land so now they're in court Okay, I'm a doctor who cured cancer and I saved lives in Haiti and my neighbor's anti-semitic so you're in front of the judge now, okay, you're in front of the judge and You've been accused of stealing land and my neighbor's anti-semitic his other neighbor beats his wife So what's he criticizing me for I need this land as a defensive buffer against the wife beater lives on the other side of Them my relatives lived in this area a long time. Yeah, I threw some rocks at him after he tried to hit my kids But I want them to get out of the way, so I wouldn't hurt them and but you know what I really really want peace So why don't I give half of my house my land to my neighbor? Would that be okay? That's your advocacy Whether you like it or not now here's the other option he could use Excuse me your honor. This is a copy of my land title deed here. Could you arrest my neighbor? throwing rocks at my kids and Give me a protective order to keep them out and then maybe we can build a working relationship once the violence and the intimidation When you go in front of the world or court and you ignore the core allegation of occupation You're essentially saying yeah, I guess we're occupiers Because you're not confronting you're not dealing with this this core problem. You got to deal with that So Zoe's a political science student. She just got in there. She's been at university for a couple of weeks And she's already been corralled by the people You know who wanted you know tell her how but how Israel's evil and their rocky illegally occupying land stolen land and all that stuff and she's going to be president one day Okay She is never going to believe that Jews and Israel are okay as long as she thinks that your land-stealing monsters No amount of good news stories. I love the good news stories. I'm glad people make them so I'm not condemning them But I'm saying in addition to telling people all the good news story You gotta confront the occupation narrative and what their way to do it than through your land title deed So it would be my argument to you that the occupation narrative has to be destroyed No matter what solution you favor Yeah, you could you could say like some other people right mark. That's pretty radical truth is never truth may be You know it may seem radical But if you're in a situation where truth seems radical you've got a serious problem And the last thing you ought to be doing is giving away half of the heartland of your country To to nice people who murdered you and attacked you and terrorized you and falsely accused you of crimes So you got a bigger problem if you can't talk about truth That's your problem. So Mandate for Palestine Okay, so the first part of the booklet is your land title deed. That's the actual copy of Israel's land deed I rewrote the entire mandate and positioned it pretty much the way it was on the original document So essentially what happened is Many many years ago in AD 135 the Romans really were not happy about that Bacchoppa Revolt and they were really mad at the Jews. So they renamed Judea Syria, Palestine Palestine or whatever way you want to pronounce it now we fast forward through the Ottoman Empire and World War one comes along and The Allied Powers defeated the Ottoman Empire. They defeated the Germans and then they had to decide what are we going to do with the land in Europe and In the Middle East So they held them they held a conference. It's called the San Remo conference now Balfour Declaration was in 1917 The San Remo conference was held in 1920 in San Remo So they held this conference and they heard claims they heard claims from the Arabs they heard claims from the Jews And they had to decide what they were going to do President Woodrow Wilson had given a speech He called it the 14 point speech and in the speech he they wanted to end colonialism they wanted to make sure that these developing countries had a chance to Get built up again and become independent states He actually got a Nobel Prize for the League of Nations and in it in the citation it mentions this fact that he wanted to Essentially liberate oppressed people that those are those are the words that daddy use so they came up with this plan for a mandate system and they were going to so some countries would get more help some countries would get less help so what they did is they divided the Middle East and Lebanon and Syria became a mandate Israel Palestine became a mandate and Palestine was always to do so somebody wants to talk to me about about about You know the Palestinians weren't there. Yeah, they were there the Jews were there They were always the Palestinians were always the Jews and that's because the Romans named the Jews state Palestine so the simplicity of this Rewriting of history is just mind-boggling to me. It's the audacity of it so they divided up the the countries and Mesopotamia was supposed to be a mandate, but they ended up You know pointing a king in there instead and there were a number of other countries that were also Treated as mandates Papua New Guinea's a mandate togo Cameroon there are a number of them now. You'll notice you'll think well mark I thought it was just the Jewish state that got its borders criticized and you would be right So for some reason out of the 14 countries that were created by mandate system Only the Jewish borders are questioned only the claims of the Jewish people are being delegitimized I wonder why that could be he said now the allies also because you know we're going to deal with objections later The allies you know you're so well colonial say I had no right to do it Well, they divided up most of Europe Poland didn't exist at the end of World War one Poland was created And so there were a number of borders in Europe were drawn redrawn and they had the absolute legal right to do it they were the victors in the war and They signed a number of different treaties, which I won't bore you with and Palestine was just one of those borders Okay, so the Arabs got the bulk of the land in the Middle East I don't have to tell you that and Jews got this little sliver of Palestine Which they immediately renamed Israel to go back to their go back to their roots so in 1922 the World issued this document a mandate for Palestine So you're going to see League of Nations mandate for Palestine together with a note by the Secretary General relating to its application to the territory known as Transjordan under the provisions of article 25 24th of July 1922 was the actual date that it was approved by the League of Nations Okay, so there are two parts of this document the first part is the actual land title deed that where they set out What Palestine? Israel is supposed to be why it was created it sets out different requirements The second part of the document is this note regarding transjordan. So guess what transjordan Which is today Jordan also was created by the mandate process but nobody criticizes the Borders of Jordan and I can't figure out. I know there aren't any Jews in Jordan. Could that be it? I think it could be and so let's go over to page 14 Mandate for Palestine. I have emphasized some clauses in here to help you, you know We're not going to read every single clause But you'll see the ones in bold italics. Those are the ones that are really critical And so what's happened is the League of Nations? They've agreed for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of the Covenant of the League of Nations because Article 22 of the Covenant establishes the mandate system which Wilson Intended that's what he wanted to have happen. So let's look at the second paragraph down Whereas the principal allied powers have also agreed that the mandatory now the brand that mandatory is going to be great Britain Should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November 2nd 1917 by the government of his Britannic majesty. What document is that? Exactly not by name, but clearly that's what they're talking about here and that document Was the first time that any nation had expressed support for the re-establishment of the Jewish Jewish nation okay, and It was in favor of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people now It also goes on to talk about protecting non-Jewish rights because they were concerned about that Now this next one the third paragraph down Whereas recognition has thereby been given to what? The historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine And to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country Do you get what they're talking about here? It's not that somebody decided out of the goodness of their heart We're going to make a home for Jews and where can we put it up Palestine? We're going to put it there because that'll really annoy the Arabs that we really want to put it there No Recognition has been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine That's why I don't have to argue 5 000 years of history I don't have to argue archaeology the world decided and recognized That the Jews are the historical owners of Palestine Isn't that neat? And it doesn't only it doesn't stop there And to the grounds for reconstituting It doesn't just say build a home Reconstituting so we recognize that the Jews have an ancient tie to this land We recognize That they have something to rebuild We want you to rebuild your that what your national home in Palestine That's remarkable remarkable statement now We're going to go down to the next bolded one closer to the bottom and it says Whereas his his britannic majesty Has accepted the mandate in respective Palestine and undertaken To exercise it on behalf of the league of nations. Now. How many of you have heard the phrase british mandate? A lot of people have heard that phrase. Okay So you'll sometimes get that with people who don't like israel and they'll say the brits had no right to divide up that land It was a british mandate and No The world Decided That recognized the jewish homeland the world decided it should be reconstituted The world decided that you should rebuild your national home. That's what they decided And great britain. It's not the british mandate. It's the world's mandate So that means that all of the promises and statements in this document They're not from just one country They're the world's promises And the only nation major nation that wasn't part of the world a part of The league of nations at the time this was filled and it's very ironic given, uh, woodrow wilson's statements and and and energies and wanting to try to create Inspiring inspiration to create the league of nations was the united states They had a bunch of squabbling and they did not join the league of nations. However They passed a document. They have a treaty with britain actually called the rights in palestine convention They recognized the the mandate for palestine. So this is Incredible stuff when I first read this document I thought I like I was like many people. Oh the united nations created with 1947 and 1940 with the resolution 1940s. No No And this is the ultimate expression of the balfour declaration and I try to tell my jewish friend says Balfour is a great spark But it is not international law. It is a statement by one nation Wonderful statement But the sand the law was made at the san remo conference And they heard all the claims the arabes made their claims the jews made their claims Everybody got hurt And this is what they said That we're going to rebuild we're going to let the jews come and rebuild their home I think that's pretty cool. So we're on article two The mandatory shall be responsible for placing the country under such political administrative and economic conditions As we'll secure the establishment of what? Jewish national home. Thank you very much And it also talks about safeguarding the civil and religious rights of all the inhabitants of palestine irrespective of race and relation There were no political rights granted To the Arabs. Now, why would that be? Can anybody think of a reason? Because they got all the rest of the Middle East There already were mandates for syria and lebanon. There's already Eventually Jordan was created. So they got Jordan. They got mesopotamia and the jews got those tiny little sliver of land Okay, they didn't need to have their own state because they had their own states all recognized by the world So the same world body that created the borders of today's iraqan Trans Jordan and syria and lebanon Well, that's okay, but the one little jewish state That's a problem. There's something wrong with that. So let's keep going article four An appropriate what kind of an agency? Jewish agency shall be recognized as a public body for the purpose of advising and cooperating with the administration of Palestine In social in such economic social and other matters that may affect the establishment of what kind of homeland Jewish national home and the interests of what population? Jewish population in where Palestine The zionist organization Shall be recognized as such an agency. Okay now article five The mandatory shall be responsible for seeing that no palestine territory Shall be acceded or leased to or in any way placed under the control of the government of any foreign power Now if you're somebody like me I served in a unpcp mission. So that's how I know I know a little bit about a little bit about the un Now if you think about that and I always thought well, you know the un created this partition plan and that inspired the jews to create Self, you know independence which may be partly true But if you think about it Let's see the mandate was still in force at the time that partition plan was being put forward But yet this article says no palestine territory shall be ceded to or placed under the government of any foreign power So mark the non-lawyer Has to wonder Did anybody have the right to divide to partition Palestine in 1947? I would say probably not However It's a good question though, isn't it? The administration of palestine. This is a good one article six because this is the one that really got a lot of jews killed because it wasn't upheld The administration of palestine shall what shall facilitate what? jewish immigration Under suitable conditions and shall encourage close settlement by what? On the land Including state land So hang on a second guys These are you understanding already that the existence of this document no matter how you want to interpret it No matter how you want to try and cast aspersions on the people who drafted it as colonialists and whatever The one document This is from the world and it makes it clear jews Were encouraged to rebuild their national home They were encouraged to rebuild it and go there and that's in article six Okay, now think about what happened during world war two And the up and the time leading up to world war two The british military they were getting grief from the arabs And they didn't really like the idea of these jews coming into this land Even though the jews have been there since what in the 1800s started buying up land and uh, you know From from absentee landlords from the ottoman empire So there was a lot of violence against the jews So the british decided that they were just going to keep the jews out and everything will be fine The british had no right to keep the jews out because the whole purpose of this document Which they were assigned they were assigned by the world With the responsibility of helping jewish people rebuild their national home there They kept the jews out I I mean I when I was writing some of the some of the some sometimes I've got a Like I don't know what number to put on it. So I finally settled on countless. How many jews died Because great britain did not honor article six in this document. How many jews died because of that and nobody has asked them for an apology It's outrageous to me. It's outrageous. Okay um number seven There shall be included in this law provisions framed so as to facilitate the acqui the acquisition of palestine citizenship by who? jews who take up their permanent residence in palestine. So for anybody to argue That jews weren't supposed to have a state and jews weren't supposed to be settling They're full of dug due because it's right here in the black and white Right here article 11 the bolded The administration may arrange with the jewish agency mentioned in article four to construct or operate upon fair and equitable terms Any public services works Any public work services and utilities and to develop any of the natural resources in the country jewish agency jewish jewish people jewish agency jewish every Okay, let's go to article 13 nothing in this mandate shall be construed as conferring upon the mandatory authority to interfere with the fabric or the management of purely Muslim sacred shrines the immunities of which are guaranteed So the framers of this document heard all the claims They recognized the jewish claims to the land They recognized they encouraged the jews to rebuild the land and they made provision for Muslim the protection of muslim shrines Isn't that that's a good thing article 50 No discrimination of any kind shall be made between the inhabitants of palestine and the ground of race religion or language article 25 In the territories lying between the jordan river and the eastern boundary of palestine as ultimately determined The mandatory shall be entitled with the consent of the council of the league of nations to postpone Or withhold application of such provisions of this mandate. So what does that mean? In the territories lying between the jordan and the eastern boundary of palestine as ultimately determined So what does that tell you? We know for sure although it says the borders of palestine were not officially determined I mean you can you look at the like you'll you'll see people will show palestine as as including all of jordan But it really didn't but it's it's a little bit awkward to explain But we know for sure based on the wording of this clause that the jewish palestine Was to include land east of the jordan river Okay, we know that because otherwise they'd just say they would just say we don't It's just going to be up to the jordan. They didn't say that they said the eastern boundary of palestine Which was going to be the jewish home would be It's east of east of the jordan river And they reserve the right to withhold the right of jews to settle on that land So again from this one document this clause alone tells us that palestine included Which was the jewish national home included land east of the jordan river. Now. Why would they do that? Well got a map This is the map of what of the claims that the zionist organization presented to the people at to the To the allied powers at the san rimo conference They claimed a land, you know part of the goland height and then a strip of about 10 miles or so On the eastern border mainly. I mean we can look at the western border But that's not really an issue right now, but on the east of the jordan river the zionist claimed land Um about 10 miles or so and that corresponded with the ancient tribes of israel. So it was a perfectly reasonable Request to make so what the what article 25 is saying is that? Any land that was promised was supposed to go to the jews As part of the mandate which would have been which extended out here They had the right to withhold settlement west of the jordan east of the jordan river Now notice that it does not say Jews don't get Jerusalem Jews don't get this Jews don't get that they had the chance at the time they drafted this document any lawyers in the room any lawyers, okay The person who drafts the contract It's interpreted against them. No, I like lawyers lawyers are good. You don't have to be afraid in this room This is good. Okay. So so they had the chance to put in this document Jewish settlement will be divided between arabs and whatever and Jerusalem is excluded. They had the chance to do it They didn't All they said was they could withhold Jewish settlement From east of the jordan river. It's all that's said in here Okay, there's nothing in this that says that excludes jews from owning Jerusalem nothing Okay, so that's article 25 now. Let's skip forward to the article note By the secretary general. So what this document is this is the british Notifying the league of nations That and confirmers actually, I think it's the league of nations confirming the document And that might be just the brits there This is the official notice that They're exercising They're right as the mandatory power which was britain that we're now going we are officially going to withhold jews settlement From east of the jordan river. Well, why would they do that if jews weren't promised land there? Okay, so it references in the middle memorandum by the british representative an article 25 of the mandate for palestine provides as follows Um in the territories lying between jordan and eastern boundary of palestine has ultimately determined the mandatory is entitled With consent to postpone or withhold application Then it goes on in two in pursuance of the provisions of this article His majesties in government invite the council to pass the following resolution quote The following provisions of the mandate for palestine are not applicable to the territory known as trans jordan Which comprises all territory lying to the east of a line Drawn from a point two miles west of the town of akaba, which is uh, right where lat is Excuse me On the gulf of that name up the center of the wadi arab Dead sea and the river jordan to his junction with the river yarmouk Sense up to the center of that river to the syrian frontier So this is this is those were the boundaries of israel palestine israel can't get clearer than that They they divided it up all the way from what's called a laugh all the way up the jordan up the dead The middle of the dead sea up through the jordan river That's the jewish homeland folks Can't get any clearer than that. So I talked to you about the choir We got to turn ourselves and a moral argument We're looking at a legal document But I want you to get bogged down illegally. I never argue legalities. I don't argue legalities. We're not in a legal war We're in a counter propaganda war and we got to win it To win it. We have to make a moral argument And the moral argument Essentially goes like this and I've got some key points here on what to stay focused on So i'm just going to give you the quicky. So this is the stuff we say focus on There can be no peace without truth jews have a land title deed from 1922 in which the world told jews to rebuild their ancient national home It's very existent existence proves Allegations of stolen land or false the document returned all land west of the jordan river returned returned All land west of the jordan river to the jewish people including jerusalem The document gave jewish land east of the jordan river to arab's in which we now call the original two-state solution So the world recognized That the jews had a claim on land on both sides of the jordan river And then the world decided that to appease the arab's In jordan they were going to take some of that jewish land that was promised to them And give it To the arab's I don't know about you, but in my book. I call that a solution. I call that another a two-state solution So jewish land has already been divided once there's already been a two-state solution And the world has never respected it practically from the moment it it was made so and then the next point Many jews died in the holocaust because the world didn't keep its promises Now the world wants to unjustly divide jewish land again in a new new two-state solution and that's not fair The word jews couldn't trust the world's promises from 1922 So why should they trust new promises today? And the world has a duty to help preserve jewish honor, especially considering all the terrible things. It's done to jewish people So let's acknowledge the jewish the original two-state solution the league of nations mandate for palestine Before we talk about any other solution Everybody wants whether it's a one-state solution or a two-state solution. Everybody wants a solution But I always try to be truthful. Okay palestine was always the jewish land That's the romans named at palestine to get to erase jewish history So um, yeah, if you were talking about that, so they're actually on the jewish part of the of the homeland Okay, so the question is Because I don't want to get into solutions. I'll talk, you know, we'll talk about that later The question is what what are we going to do with them? Oh, I mean, what but mark, what are you going to do with them? That's why you don't talk about solutions. First, let's talk about truth Because the world should know if you're going to have a solution the jews should That's why I tell people Let's assume that we had a two-state solution tomorrow magic magic There's a solution. It's all signed Do you know what you just did the jewish people just falsely confessed under duress to occupation and ethnic cleansing And what an awful stain On jewish history. I think that would be an awful legacy. It's an insult to the people who died to create isro It's an insult to the people who defended it and built it and it's a stain on on Children your children's legacy and I think if there's going to be any kind of solution It needs to come after the world recognizes. No jews didn't steal this land. They actually do own it Now that may never come and as I said to people You have no peace now and you have no truth So at least we could walk in the light of truth and we could stand And say no, we're owners. Can I deal with it then admit that that This is what the world promised us and then we can talk about whatever we're going to whatever Solution you imagine because that's the one thing that people don't understand Is that once you decide that you're going to stand on truth Magical things will happen because all of a sudden if the world starts understanding that jewish people Are standing up for their rights and people are starting to grasp that wow, this is they've really been treated horribly By this narrative. This isn't fair And as soon as that propaganda there this anti jew anti israel propaganda starts being exposed By the light of truth Then they're going to get really motivated for a solution Then maybe maybe israel will say or egypt would say hey, why don't you have a have your own state over here But essentially what you're doing is you're you're undermining the power of the propaganda that the other side is doing So that's that's the whole goal of this so anyways so The problem that I see in most israel advocacy Is that we allow ourselves to get taken down rabbit holes. So Somebody will say occupation so And you'll say Well, no, uh, there's this mandate thing I heard about And they'll say yeah, but that was colonialist and away you go. Was it colonialist? Was it not colonialist? No, you got to be able to control the debate. So if somebody's saying to No, that's not true What you do is I say to them. Well, excuse me Do you agree that the world made promises to the jewish people and those promises are in the mandate for palestine? No Well, what am I talking to them for? Why would I talk to them? Unless I've got a group of people around me. That's fine If you want to have a debate in an airline seat with somebody go ahead You know if that's what you want to do, but I'm not going to waste my time fighting haters I'm looking for the people who will really want to understand what's going on So let me give you the narrative that I would I would give so somebody points at me occupation Well, you know, sorry, what's your name? Rob. Well, you know rob there can be no peace without truth And the truth is so the jewish people are owners not occupiers because they have a land title deed from the original two state solution It was called the 1922 mandate for palestine and the whole world Gave it to the jewish people and told them to rebuild their national home there And now the world's trying to take it away from them And a lot of jews died because the world didn't keep its promises Don't you think the world should be able to keep its promises, right? Now they're going to say uh the wall there's a wall Now this is where this is where this is where the rubber meets the road Well, listen, I'm glad to talk to you about any topic But could we first agree that the world made promises to the jewish people and that those promises were not kept could we do that Well, I don't know. Well, if I could show you a document that proves it, would you be interested in reading it? Okay, all right, and that's how you control the the narrative Don't let them drag you down into the illegalities into into these rabbit holes About that are never endless. You've got to control the narrative And if again if I was in a if I had a small group of people I'd say listen, would you like to see the document? What about you anybody want to see the document that proves this is nonsense? No, okay, I'm not wasting my time. That's how I control the narrative. I'm not going to talk to you I did a protest once I stood there one guy came up to me And I'm starting to talk to him and he and I said well, listen, I got a piece of paper that'll That'll explain it to you. No, no, I want to I want to talk about this I said well, if you don't trust me enough to even take a piece of paper from my hand Why would I bother talking to you? Oh, so he took the paper the next day he came back And he couldn't believe it. He checks it out. I was telling him the truth And so that's how you control the narrative. Don't go down the rabbit holes, but you're going to get common objections So one of the common objections is The mandate is too old It's too old So I'll say to I had this objection from those people You know when I was in that apartment with the people who thought telling the truth was pretty radical um There's a lawyer there and this guy i'm telling you this guy agonizes over Israel agonizes over it And he says mark I see one big problem with your with your with your approach. I said really what is it? The mandate's too old. It's not relevant I says too old is the u.s. Constitution too old Our aboriginal land treaties too old to be enforced And I said but really what you've done Is you just prove something to me you prove my whole point Jews can't trust the world's promises So that's immoral So the whole point is shouldn't jews be able to trust the world's promises I don't have to argue all the legalities. I don't have to argue archaeology Shouldn't should yes or no should jews be able to be able to trust the world's promises So and then you'll get the objection but mark what about the un resolution and this resolution and the wall decision and the opinion of the international court and I'll say um Were they before or after 1922? Well, they were after 1920. Well, thank you very much You just proved again that the world can't trust the promises made to the jewish people And a lot of jews died because those provinces were kept and shouldn't they be able to trust those promises But mark What's the solution? I said, I'm really glad you asked that There can be no peace without truth and we can't build on lies. So the solution is to stop talking about solutions Once the world accepts the truth That the jewish people are owners and not occupiers and that may take five years It may take 10 years. It may never happen But we're going to walk in the light of truth until that happens And maybe a solution will present itself Okay, that's the problem and that's why truth before solutions is the number one Thing on my list of court concepts if you can grasp that Because if you think about it from a practical point of view The politicians are sheep They are led by public opinion and they blow in the breeze fortunately I think you have some really great politicians in israel But they watch public opinion Our job is to create a parade for them to jump in front of and lead Okay, let them think they're leaning it But our job is to make it popular again to talk about israel's land rights now One of the problems of course and and underlining all this The reason because I have you know my non-jewish friends, especially let's say well mark. This is amazing stuff Why don't they why doesn't israel talk about do you know israel does not even Teach its own children about its history of land rights. Don't you think jewish kids should read this document? I do They should be reading that they don't and that's why cil r canadians for israel's legal rights Existed they wanted they were working with the israeli government. They were hoping to get this into the curriculum Okay, because as you can see We're talking about the choir again. How can you possibly? Confront an occupation narrative The immorality of that narrative if you don't even know your own history. You can't do that So that's what they wanted to do salomon ben zimmer the author of the jewish people's rights to the land of israel Was on his way home after meeting mk's in israel and he had he died right on the plane with a pen on his hand achieving part of his dream of Getting somebody in israel to listen to what they're saying so A lot of people again i'm going to emphasize it. They want solutions solutions solutions The politicians if you're going to have a solution by now you would have it You have the people who want a one-state solution. They got problems with a two-state solution the people with the two-state solution They have a problem with a one-state solution. I'm saying let's how about first of all, let's recognize something Ripping half of your country apart Where your ancient patriarchs and matriarchs walked and made history and where all the tombs are ripping that part of your country out And giving it to people who have done nothing but kill you and attack you and vilify you And murder your children and murder your athletes I don't regard that as a moderate solution I'm sorry that just doesn't strike me as being moderate and even all the people in that were who are in the room when that apartment with me They're all two two-state solution But I ask them who who if you actually believes that a two-state solution is going to work Tell me who who's going to do that Not one of them not one of them actually think it's going to work Okay, so i'm in big on reality. Let's deal with reality if we're going to talk about solutions How about we talk about this one first Then you can figure out what you're going to do But let's walk in the light of truth And we can hold our heads up high and say maybe you're not going to like it. So my friends will say to me Mark, why don't Jewish people talk about this? And I said if I had to guess I think it's because too many people walk in fear They're they don't want it to get worse. They've been beaten up and and and tormented and they just want the pain to stop And you know, I think some of them just perceive that well, you know could get more violent and probably would But if that's the case then what makes you think the status quo is going to work without truth I mean, how do you how do you stop that? There was a friend of mine a great supporter I did a presentation Or sorry, I was attending a presentation from the european coalition for israel and this man Thomas Sandel Sandel reaches out to high-level diplomats. I mean inside the u.m. They hold secret saders. He told me With with is with Danny Denon to see the ambassador now for the u.m. Yeah, and and You know, I asked him at a presentation. I said, why do you think it's like that? Why wouldn't you just talk about this because he knew he was telling he told us a story He said I went to japan and you know japan has a lot of guilt over world war two And there aren't a lot of people that bring a lot of great news to about japanese history And he goes and he met with japanese parliamentarians and he said do you understand That it was japanese people Who were at the san rimo conference who helped make israel possible? They were just moved by this stuff, okay So he he said he's answering. He gave pretty much the same answer that I did and my my supporter stood up and she said You know, I'm the daughter of holocaust survivors and she says I think it's battered women It's like battered women's syndrome. He said jewish people have been beaten down so much Who were afraid that it's just going to get worse? And you know, listen, you know, I didn't think a lot of it. I thought no that makes sense But you know what has to happen for a beaten woman to regain her self-respect? She has to face the truth She has to face the risk that yeah, it could get worse because the most dangerous time in an abused woman's Life is when she leaves the abuser Okay, and that's all I'm telling you you got to leave the abuser. You got to embrace the light embrace the truth So let's just have a look see now. There's one of my great Comebacks, okay, and again, it's it's um handling objections. So they'll say um Let me think They'll make an objection about oh geez. I can't think of what it would be But I'll say well, how does that change the fact? I'll always frame it back to the yeah, remember this one How does that change the fact That jews were promised this land by the world the re were restored to this land by the world in their land title Do you have you read the land title deed? Here's the link Okay, we always want to link to the normal people Okay, so when we're online if I'm if I'm dealing with a hater it's always um Yeah, well, uh, have you read Israel's land title deed and here's the here's the link. Okay, and you'll see it in the role playing Things here so that you're you're getting you're leaving breadcrumbs for the normal people to find Okay, so what about what about x y zed objection? So here's zoe and she's saying we're on page 30 But what about this objection the wall the barricades the The checkpoints or whatever again You'll see y'all see There's really no point in going any further until you've read the mandate for palestine And we can agree jews were given the right to rebuild their ancient home In jewish palestine by the world community and that disproves the lies that you've been told Um, and you can read it here. Would you like me to show you a copy if you're in person? You might say like I got a copy or you would like to read it Don't let them take you down the rabbit holes because that's how they defeat you the mandate was signed a long time ago It's not relevant today You see you better understand something If the world can ignore This two-state solution Today they can ignore a new two-state solution tomorrow And 25 years from now and 50 years from now and anybody who has I don't really get into it in here Although there's a little bit there The goal is you know, has anybody ever read the book son of hamas? Okay, and I think it's mosad. I can't think of his whole name now. He's the son of a hamas founder I got to meet him. He signed autograph my book. It was great And he said the problem is that the world Treats this as a political problem when in reality it's a religious problem and what he meant by that is that Israel was conquered by Islam It must be conquered again It's just it's that's just islamic ideology. It has to be And so it doesn't stop until all of israel if you've seen the maps for palestine Um, we're not talking about the liberated areas here judae and samaria. The map is all of israel They want the end of israel Okay We just have to understand that so They are going to want it. So here's the here's the thing I ask you If you don't hold up your land title deed To keep to hang on to judae and samaria until the world at least until the world Recognizes you as owners proper owners. What are you going to hold up when they want televieve? Because all by then see you you own judae and samaria Your title to judae and samaria That's from the same place By what right do you own televieve? If you if you're going to give away to judae and samaria Why not televieve? Why not hypha? What's the difference wouldn't it be better to hold this up today and say no no we're owners Not occupiers. Okay the jigs up guys We're owners not occupiers So and then again the un resolutions Well, I love that question and and you know, this is the beauty of it. I had three go rounds with this professor of international law who actually Negotiates treaties. Okay, so By the time I'm done I don't think he won't admit that I beat him But I'll tell you Ted Belman who is not given if you is not given to effusive praise Wrote to me and said mark. I was very impressed with your your contributions to that Because I a non lawyer using nothing than what I taught you Now you could go out with this booklet right now and take on the same guy With a little bit of practice because in the end I said to him Look you You're giving me all these reasons in denigrating the the mandate for palestine, but not once of you said it didn't exist Not once of you said the world didn't make promises to the jewish people Not once did you say those promises were kept? But yet you want jews to trust new promises I said in reality because of course then they start getting personal I always like it when they get personal because then they start losing the argument now It's got to get personal right and I love that And you just don't understand or appreciate international law and I said No, my friend You're the one who doesn't appreciate international law because you're out negotiating treaties that you know can be Abrogated simply through lies and violence. So which one of us actually has respect for international law? I do Ted Belmont does So let's talk about the international law Let's do that Going to get it might be hard So I love it when they throw the UN resolutions at you at me. I love it Was that before after 1922? Oh it was after sorry you just proved that jews can't trust the world's promises And the reason that's so powerful is we're not making a legal argument because most people would say well No, it's relevant because of this our little you know and this latin phrase and this legal term and no We've got to make the moral argument because that's what was used against you Okay, bridge the mandate was a british colonialist document. That's another one the old the two old objection That's the most common one and that's the easiest one of all. I love that one The colonialist document well the easy way to to do that If you don't know the history, there's enough information here and if you watch the video There's a video in here about salomon benzema. I'm on 31 right at the top thing We're always saying the mandate was a british colonialist document if you look in the bottom of that top box You'll see if there's a link there To a video of salomon benzema from canadiens for his rules legal rights And if you go watch that we recorded that specifically as a training Video to be used exactly for this and thank goodness we have this Because he's he's no longer with us and he explains all of this stuff in there And he goes through the maps and the history of the mandate and and all of that stuff So it was not a colonialist document. The whole point was to eliminate colonialism. So you're able to read that yourself and You know, you'll have well, they're just defending their homeland You know these role plays can go anyway. I can't give you a silver bullet if you're looking for a silver bullet that's magically gonna Take them out This you know, I can't give you that all I can give you is the best thing the thing that's most effective and I'm gonna tell you something Most effective When you're when I'm online and I start doing the mandate stuff nobody wants to take me on They'll take me on for two or three tweets and then that's it and then I get blocked because they know this stuff And I'll show you how how important it is So, I mean you always want to treat people Though when you're interacting with people Even the most vicious of them I always treat them as misguided. I don't want to call them liars Unless they've really shown themselves to be like I always want to I always want to treat them as somebody who's been misled So I position that with with them. So in this in this bottom one on 31 I'll say, uh, you know, I suggest you read mandate for Palestine and the Hamas Charter and then ask yourself Do I really want to be spreading lies to a date to aid today's racist Nazis in pursuing a new Holocaust? Against Jews or do I want to be speaking out for truth and justice on behalf of a truly persecuted people? And I give them, you know, there's a link to the Hamas Charter. Okay. It's always Um, and some Jews really have a problem with this idea of portraying themselves as victims And I really understand that Um, think of it as you're the underdog You're the underdogs You've been cheated the world cheated you they wrote this document And then did their best to ignore it and I think it's outrageous. So And then we'll talk about solutions and again my solution you want to know what my solution is It's time to call a moratorium on all solutions. Now. I don't have to I guess what now. I don't have to argue solutions. Do I? Let's have a moratorium And now now you'll have the one stator's this one state people you have a more wheat I had this this lady from uh from uh judei samaria and uh We don't want to leave any chance that they could ever resurrect this two state solution And she was she was very adamant about that. I said you better understand something What you're trying to do is kill the elephant and eat the elephant all in the same day What I'm suggesting to you is that if you call if you could get The israeli government To call a moratorium on all solutions. I wouldn't that be nice a politician does not have to make a decision All he has to decide is our jews owners are occupiers We convince bb of that and we convince and we show them like look You can avoid all the one states arguments and all the two state solutions Why don't you just call a moratorium? Well, I'm pretty sure by the time This this curriculum gets through to jewish people and jewish kids and out into the world Maybe they're not going to want to give up judei or samaria anymore. Maybe they won't maybe they will I don't know But if it's going to happen it should happen After the world acknowledges that your owners you're going to say mark World's never going to do that because I mean one of my what I would suggest you do is you get the israeli government or an or an israeli uh NGO To draft a request For a for an apology from the united nations Article 80 of the un charter they sometimes call it the palestine article and that article Guarantees all prior existing rights under previous instruments the united nations had an obligation to protect the rights acquired in the mandate Are they No So what you need to do is you got to put the un defensive Hey guys Here's our land title deed You need to recognize jewish's owners not occupiers now years, but mark. They're never going to do that I know they're never going to do that probably in my lifetime But guess what it puts them on the defensive and then bb stands up and say Yeah, we're not talking about any solutions until the world acknowledges our land title deed The mandate for palestine the next day you're going to have all these report Mandate for palestine. What the heck is that? Okay, um And now you've put the world on defensive now. You got people. Well, what is this jewish land title? What the heck is because I guarantee it Four of you in this room who are motivated enough to come and hear me speak Only four of you have read your own land title deed Well, guess what is it any wonder that your kids are going into university and being convinced That israel is a monster monstrous occupier I It's not a question of why are they doing it? Why wouldn't they be doing it because nobody's teaching them? Okay, that's our job. That's our job of the choir. We got to teach them their own history Okay, this is strategic deployment of a moral narrative. This is what israel can do. So hence strategic So one day i'm i'm i wake early in the morning And i've got this because i'm and i'm thinking Let's speech what i want bb to give if i could write it for him and it's bizarre because you know Um, it's like somebody put the words into my head and i'm wait i don't two o'clock in the morning I said i got to write this down and i wrote the i wrote a speech for bb It's called truth before solutions a new path to peace and which he announces That israel is declaring a moratorium on all solutions Um until the world record under you know re acknowledges It's promises to the jewish people And so if you'll read it later, we're not going to do it now when you read the speech you'll understand You'll see how we'd craft in the moral argument always the moral argument But based on legality of the document Okay, trust me if i can i can teach bb how to overcome the objection to imagine bb on cnn during the last gas war Instead of stumbling about not having peace partners and all this bb said Well, you know jake There can be no peace without truth And the jewish people are owners not occupiers because we have a land title deed that the world gave us in 1922 And so we're not going to talk about any solutions until the world recognizes that we are owners not occupiers And thank you very much dick Can you imagine that? wow Okay, be awesome Okay, so you read that read that and understand the integration of the moral argument that's missing From virtually all israel advocacy today. Okay action plan NGOs Education about the mandate and how to use it there are people in the world who teach the mandate stuff But they don't understand how to use it to make the moral argument and without without using it as a moral argument At a tactical and a strategic level It's not going to get you very far it just putting The document in front of people It's a start But you've got to show them the immorality Of the world not keeping its promises to jewish people. How about mandate for jewish palestine day? Who's heard of al-kud's day? Anybody a few? Okay. How about mandate for jewish palestine day? I'll go there. I'd love that one And uh lobby the israel government to do this plan now In uh earlier this year. I have been telling my jewish friends for Guys somebody please Petition the uk government for an apology For all the jews that died because because britain kept them out of palestine before world war two I don't think anybody's done it yet Well in may of this year, I believe it was Some palestinian group petitioned the uk government to apologize for the belfort declaration So jewish groups were sending out their reply and if you read the first part of the reply it said UK is proud of its role in creating the state of israel and does not intend to Intend to apologize I said well, you got to click on the rest and they were actually sending this out to people Well, when you read the rest of it The uk government is telling this guy Yes, we realize we should have included rights of self-determination for the palestinian people in the belfort declaration So the uk government I wrote an article in times of israel the uk government is rewriting the belfort declaration 100 years later and the palestinian people Were the jews That's why it's called the mandate for palestine that that is all about the jewish national home This is the idiocy. This is the danger Of being silent about this stuff and the longer it goes on the worst it's going to get now you may say mark How does that affect your narrative doesn't hurt me? This is just another example of how the jews can't trust the world's promises Okay, I don't have to argue anything else can't trust the world's promises. Okay And file a demand You know again apology for the uk number three ask that the un officially recognize israel's land rights And institute a moratorium on all solutions and then include Education about land rights history your kids should never go to bed one more night thinking that their people stole land Because that that and that's what I do. I try to work to prevent that. Thank you so much. You've been a great audience